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NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Macquarie Group Ltd MQG.AX and Orion Mine Finance have sold their stakes in the small British metal warehousing company, Scale Distribution, a source said on Thursday, ending a three-year foray into the lucrative storage business.
Dave Day, a minority shareholder and founder of the company, will retain the company's storage sheds in Britain and the company name, the source familiar with the situation said.
The buyer is not known.
Macquarie declined to comment and Orion did not respond to requests for comment.
Three executives from the two companies have left the board of Scale, according to a filing with Companies House, the United Kingdom's business registry, on Thursday.
They are Paul Plewman at Macquarie, Oskar Lewnowski, who founded Orion, a mining fund spun off from metals hedge fund Red Kite and another Orion executive Peter Rozenauers.